Motifs
Pictorial fields on seals. A motif is not a textual translation.
Research compilation from a published ICIT-style digitization — not a complete or licensed photographic corpus
Unicorn
The most frequent Indus seal animal: a one-horned bovine-like figure facing a standard.
A motif is an image, not a translation of the accompanying signs.
Humped bull
Zebu or related bovine motif.
Animal identity does not establish a word reading.
Elephant
Less frequent animal motif on stamp seals.
Motif frequency is not a phonetic value.
Rhinoceros
Animal motif known from a minority of seals.
Do not equate the image with a sign meaning.
Tiger
Feline motif, sometimes shown in narrative scenes.
Narrative scenes are not bilingual captions.
Water buffalo
Bovid motif with distinctive horns.
Context association is not translation.
Goat or markhor
Caprid motif on a smaller subset of seals.
Rare motifs make percentage claims unstable.
Composite animal
Hybrid creatures combining body parts of several animals.
Composite images are especially unsafe as rebus keys.
No animal motif
Tablets, pottery and some copper objects carry signs without a pictorial field.
Absence of a motif is itself a contextual variable.